UK Consortium to Develop Carbon-Efficient Pyrolysis Biofuel Blendstock for Transport Sector
The Carbon Trust has created a consortium of British businesses led by Axion Energy, a division of the Axion Group, to pioneer the developme...

Researchers Show New Piezeoelectrochemical Effect Can Scavenge Energy Wastes Such as Noise or Vibration to Generate Hydrogen Via Water Splitting
H2 and O2 are produced by deforming a ZnO fiber or BaTiO3 dendrite in water via oxidation-reduction reactions. Credit: ACS, Hong et al. Cli...

Q: Substitutes or complements?
If you're both a very faithful and a very passive Econbrowser reader, for two years now you've sat on the sidelines while you watched other,...

Renault Introduces E85 Flex-Fuel Dacia Sandero in France
Dacia has extended its line-up (in France) of vehicles that run on alternative fuels with a new, E85 flex-fuel version of the Dacia Sandero ...

Uh Oh. Not Another Don t Be Evil Company
Long ago Google unofficially abandoned the Don t Be Evil mantra and replaced it with, no kidding, an evil scale. Sometimes you have ...

Testing of Scuderi Engine at Part Load Shows Consistent Combustion
Independent laboratory test results of the split-cycle Scuderi Engine prototype at part load show a coefficient of variability (COV) of 2.5 ...

CSIRO/BOM: Australias Mean Temperature has Risen 0.7 C Since 1960, Climate Change is Real
An increase in the mean temperature in Australia of about 0.7 C (1.26 F) since 1960 and other observed changes in rainfall, sea level ri...

Total alchemist
A good, old-fashioned total synthesis of a natural product caught The Alchemist s attention this week, as did the notion of spiking the hy...

Study Finds That High Volatility Fuels or Blendstocks Could Help Avoid Some of the Problems of Low Temperature Combustion
Increased fuel volatility could play an important role in enabling future engines to employ early direct-injection, LTC (low-temperature com...